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Program Evaluation

Journal Article
Development of Items to Assess Patients' Health Literacy Experiences at Hospitals for the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Hospital Survey
This study provides support for the measurement properties of the HCAHPS Item Set for Addressing Health Literacy.
Sep 1, 2012
Journal Article
Development and Evaluation of CAHPS® Survey Items Assessing How Well Healthcare Providers Address Health Literacy
This study provides support for reliability and validity of the CAHPS Item Set for Addressing Health Literacy.
Sep 1, 2012
Report
Weighing the Costs, Benefits, and Efficiency of Aviation Security Measures
The threat of terrorist attack on American aviation has made the system the focus of intense security efforts, but it is difficult to determine if the benefits outweigh their cost. Efficient security policy—a focus on getting the most security for the least cost—should be the priority in an era of fiscal austerity.
Aug 21, 2012
News Release
Costs, Benefits, and Efficiency of Aviation Security Measures
The threat of terrorist attack on American aviation has made the system the focus of intense security efforts, but it is difficult to determine if the benefits outweigh their cost. Efficient security policy—a focus on getting the most security for the least cost—should be the priority in an era of fiscal austerity.
Aug 20, 2012
Journal Article
Involving Primary Care Clinicians in Quality Improvement: An Independent Evaluation of the Health Foundation's Engaging with Quality in Primary Care Programme : Final Report
Clinicians need to focus fully on quality improvement to ensure their interventions achieve full potential.
Apr 1, 2012
Report
National Evaluation of the DH Integrated Care Pilots
This report is the result of an evaluation of the 16 DH integrated care pilots (ICPs).
Mar 22, 2012
Report
National Evaluation of the DH Integrated Care Pilots: Appendices
This report contains appendices to the result of an evaluation of the 16 DH integrated care pilots (ICPs).
Mar 22, 2012
Report
National Evaluation of the DH Integrated Care Pilots: Summary
This report is a summary of the result of an evaluation of the 16 DH integrated care pilots (ICPs).
Mar 22, 2012
Commentary
Promoting Success: Using Data to Inform Decision Making
Many organizations that we have worked with indicate that this approach has helped improve reporting and communication both within and external to their organization, writes Sarah Hunter.
Mar 21, 2012
Report
The National Institute for Health Research Leadership Programme: An evaluation of programme progress and delivery
RAND Europe evaluated the National Institute for Health Research Leadership Programme to help the English Department of Health consider the extent to which the programme has helped to foster wider research aims and extract lessons for the future.
Mar 8, 2012
Journal Article
Assessing Relationships Between State and Local Public Health Organizations: Evidence from the NACCHO 2008 Profile of Local Health Departments
Public health systems vary by degree of centralization, reflecting the distribution of authority, responsibility, and effort between state and local public health agencies.
Mar 1, 2012
Journal Article
Systematic Review of the Impact of Worksite Wellness Programs
Analyzes the impact of worksite wellness programs on health and financial outcomes, and the effect of incentives on participation.
Feb 1, 2012
Journal Article
Assessing the Sensitivity of Treatment Effect Estimates to Differential Follow-Up Rates: Implications for Translational Research
The authors developed a new tool for assessing the sensitivity of findings on treatment effectiveness to differential follow-up rates in the two treatment conditions being compared.
Jan 1, 2012
Journal Article
Establishing and Evaluating the Key Functions of an Interactive Systems Framework Using an Assets-Getting to Outcomes Intervention
Community practitioners can face difficulty in achieving outcomes demonstrated by prevention science.
Jan 1, 2012
Journal Article
Employing Continuous Quality Improvement in Community-Based Substance Abuse Programs
This article aims to describe continuous quality improvement (CQI) for substance abuse prevention and treatment programs in a community-based organization setting.
Jan 1, 2012
Journal Article
Toward Standardization of Benefit-Cost Analysis of Early Childhood Interventions
The objective of this paper is to delineate a set of standards for conducting benefit-cost analyses (BCAs) of early childhood programs.
Jan 1, 2012
Research Brief
Evaluation of the Social Impact Bond: Lessons from planning and early implementation at HMP Peterborough
RAND Europe has evaluated the world's first Social Impact Bond (SIB), an innovative payment-by-results mechanism to fund public services which aims to reduce reoffending by prisoners. This report presents the initial findings of the evaluation.
Dec 14, 2011
Brochure
Proposed Directions of Change to the Common Rule for Protecting Human Research Participants: RAND Responses
Documents RAND's responses to proposed changes in the Common Rule, which regulates Institutional Review Board protection of human research participants.
Dec 2, 2011
Journal Article
Building Capacity for Outcomes Measurement in Human Service Organizations: The Getting to Outcomes Method
Published in: Outcomes Measurement in the Human Services, 2nd Edition: Cross-Cutting Issues and Methods in the Era of Health Reform / Magnabosco, Jennifer L. and Manderscheid, Ronald W., Eds. (Washington, DC : NASW Press, Dec. 2011), Chapter 6, p. 73-88
Dec 1, 2011
Commentary
Is Publicly Funded R&D Investment the Best Way Out of the European Financial Crisis?
Publicly funded R&D investment is a coherent policy to support long term economic growth. Our only note of caution is about how far and how fast that growth can be delivered because the evidence we have is out of date and skewed towards the experience of just one country, write Jonathan Grant and Jon Sussex.
Nov 29, 2011

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